Anima: Soul Magic

Anima: Soul Magic is a magic and automation mod centered on researching forbidden soul magic, harvesting spirits, and building a workshop powered by souls. Progress through a hands-on laboratory process: grow crystals, work glass and Soulbone into apparatus and circuits, then experiment with world-specific soul-extraction sequences to discover how to capture spirits. Store spirits in a Soul Well, route them through relays, and use them to power 39 spells spanning healing, movement, combat, utility, and summoning; Benign, Infernal, and Ender souls support different magical effects. Research spells by exploring for encrypted books and translating them at a Research Table, then carry souls in Soul Gems for spells such as blinking across ravines, summoning soul lights, or animating an ally. Possession lets you view the world as a spirit with a Mirror, bind to creatures with a Soul Leash, or learn to move between eligible hosts, while leaving your own vulnerable body behind. You can also assemble a Workshop Golem, possess its powerful frame, and use it to fight, dig, carry persistent cargo, or operate machinery that requires a golem’s strength. Soul-powered workers can automate harvesting, gathering, breeding, shearing, forestry, block placement, and block breaking, with job preferences and connections to hoppers and redstone shaping how a workshop operates. Further progression includes reconstructing undead mobs, making altar offerings for themed enchantments, and performing soul infusions to craft Soulbone armor and Saronite; a Saronite Sword can capture eligible creatures’ souls directly into bottles. The later path leads to challenging a deity’s cosmic avatar in a three-phase boss fight, claiming its God Soul, and forging a Ring of Power that grants survival flight with dark feathered wings. Players can create gods with chosen blessings, curses, powers, offerings, symbols, shrine colors, and worship sounds, then raise shrines, make offerings, and use worship to travel between shrines, including across dimensions. Priests can bless followers and curse enemies with a Priest Rod, while a god that rises to the top of the Pantheon can provide powers such as summoning storms, restoring equipment, or reviving crops. The Necronomicon serves as an in-game guide to progression, recipes, spells, and structures, with projectable multiblock guides and 85 advancements marking discoveries.